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It begins: Scammers already cashing in on Obamacare

And I’m not even talking about elected Democrats. Remember all those Obamacare-related concerns about sensitive data, privacy breaches, fraud, and identity theft? Yeah:

“Scammers are calling unsuspecting people, saying they are with Obamacare or the federal government — and they need your information to send you your Obamacare card. Some scammers try to sell consumers very poor coverage, or coverage that isn’t even real. They also request bank account numbers…”

The much more serious privacy issues won’t really start to arise until legions of under-vetted Obamacare “navigators” begin their work, and the federal data hub is established.

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I don’t know which depresses me more. The corruption of ObamaCare or the fact that too many Americans are happy to turn their lives and all their personal information over to people “representing” the federal government who have become the arbiters of what you have and don’t have.

There have been adverts for getting insurance under Obamacare for over 6 months. Telling me I can get the insurance “I deserve”. I called one about it because I was curious and they would never agree to send me anything in writing.

Does anyone else here remember the phone scams of just a few years ago out of Miami, FL “offering” “diplomas” and then the more recent scam through the mail posing as IRS material and demanding you call “them” to discuss your file/s?

I do.not.understand how these scammers can operate and do so for so long as they do and have. Asking local police to file a complaint is useless, they don’t get the idea that it’s their concern. I know, because I tried after the ongoing diploma-mill scam. Also emailed garbage about the same thing…I think these scammers operate as they do because they’re aware that no one’s “there” to penalize them.

There have been adverts for getting insurance under Obamacare for over 6 months. Telling me I can get the insurance “I deserve”. I called one about it because I was curious and they would never agree to send me anything in writing.

I don’t know which depresses me more. The corruption of ObamaCare or the fact that too many Americans are happy to turn their lives and all their personal information over to people “representing” the federal government who have become the arbiters of what you have and don’t have.

gwelf on July 24, 2013 at 11:45 AM

I can’t stand consumer fraud, unless no one could by now notice that what with my several comments here.

Anyway, in Hawaii, the state drivers licenses carry the bearer’s social security number. Predominantly. Or did when I resided there, though I heard eventually that “a lot of people object to it” and for good reason.

Show your DL, there or anywhere you’re travelling, and you display your SS number in emphasized type to anyone who takes a look.

And just TRY telling a cable company or insurance company “customer service rep.” that you don’t care to provide your SS number or home tel. number when unlisted to them (they can look up your account by other information, they don’t need your SS# or home telephone number unless you need to blab it to them).

This level of disregard for personal privacy is why we have so little of it today. Or none of it in the case of the creepy government socialism under Obama — I doubt even after he’s out of office that we’ll ever get it back.